A Samurai in Time (2023) on Netflix
In Edo-era Kyoto, Shinzaemon Kosaka prepares to face a ronin in a storm. Lightning strikes, and he wakes in the present day on a jidaigeki film set.
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Plot summary
A flash of lightning pulls Shinzaemon Kosaka out of the Edo period and sets him down in the present day, in Kyoto, where the ground he was about to fight on is now a film set for jidaigeki television shows and movies. He is still in his samurai clothes, and the people there mistake him for an extra and push him straight into production work. His look and his speech are so authentic that he is hired on one production after another, playing a kirareyaku, a swordsman whose part is to be cut down on camera, and he becomes successful at it.
Cast
- Yoshiharu Fukudaas Chief Priest of Seikei-ji Temple
- Tsutomu Tamuraas Kyotaro Nishiki
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Samurai in Time (2023)
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- Seizo Fukumoto was initially cast as sword-fighting instructor Sekimoto in A Samurai in Time, but he died before the part was filled, so Rantaro Mine, Fukumoto's junior, was cast in his place.
- A Samurai in Time was a low-budget independent film made for 26 million yen and first shown in just one theater; word-of-mouth made it a hit and it expanded to more cinemas.
- Makiya Yamaguchi, who plays the lead samurai Kosaka Shinzaemon, already had a long acting career, but A Samurai in Time was the first time he starred in a film.
- Director Jun'ichi Yasuda poured his own personal fortune into the production of A Samurai in Time, financing the film himself.
